Юзефина в декабрьском номере Elle Denmark

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Юзефина попала на обложку

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Статья на сайте журнала +пара фото + небольшое видео со съёмок
http://www.elle.dk/mode/nyheder/elle-december-nyt-magasin-paa-gaden-dossier

@темы: видео, статьи, фото, Noora Amalie Saetre/Josefine Frida Pettersen

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Интервью с Юзефиной

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От финской девочки-блогера? Я вообще плохо поняла, что происходит, но здесь есть Юзефина и она отвечает на вопросы про Скам на английском.
Кусочка интервью два: начиная с 2:33 и начиная с 9:25

@темы: видео, Noora Amalie Saetre/Josefine Frida Pettersen, интервью

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Шуточный ролик CO3 - POLEN SMELTER c Юзефиной и с Николаем Костер-Валдау

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Тизер:


здесь

Небольшое интервью:

Почти перевод

Вопрос: Каково тебе быть репером?
Ответ: Ну, это очень весело. Этим я и займусь. Вообще, я собираюсь все остальные дела и сфокусироваться только на рэпе.
Ладно, просто шучу. Это всё просто веселье и шуточки

@темы: видео, разное, Noora Amalie Saetre/Josefine Frida Pettersen

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Реклама ERDEM x H&M с Руби

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Ролик про создание

@темы: видео, Emma W. Larzen/Ruby Dagnall

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Тарьяй и Хенрик в Interview Magazine 06/10/17

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Оригинал статьи (на английском) 18 больших фото и интревью

текст интервью

The third season of Norwegian teen series Skam dismantled stereotypes, coerced schoolkids into skiving off classes and turned homophobes into rainbow flag-waving defenders—and it first began airing one year ago today. It was the “gay” season, charting the blossoming relationship of Isak Valtersen and Even Bech Næsheim, both coming to terms with their sexuality amidst a cutting background of teenage angst. Taking every fan poll I’ve ever come across into account, season three was by far Skam’s most popular. It broke streaming records in Norway, and television viewership records in neighboring Denmark and Sweden. Throughout its 10-episode run, it hardly left the list of worldwide trending topics on any given social platform.

With a short promo clip that could have been a stand in for a gay snuff film—jockish throbs in a locker room being showered with milk in slow motion—the series wasn’t afraid to shy away from explicitly homosexual subject matter. Or any hot button subject. Homophobia, bullying, mental health—nothing was off the cards for series creator Julie Andem.

Only a few episodes deep and the series’ popularity reached a fever pitch. Its progressive narrative rested squarely on the sinewy backs of two hunky young actors. Tarjei Sandvik Moe, 18, and Henrik Holm, 22, who embodied these characters for several short years. The monumental shift from tiny Scandi show to international hit uploaded to Google Drive with bootleg subtitles didn’t go unnoticed. “While we were shooting it, we were kind of living in the Skam universe, and suddenly there were people trying to take pictures of us,” remembers Holm.

A fourth season came and went centering on the Muslim character, Sana, and though it garnered both debate and praise, people couldn’t help but ache for the return of Isak and Even. Then the series ended, seemingly without warning. Fans were left reeling. Pillows were cried into. And the explanation for its conclusion was a bit weak. However, Holm and Moe pulled it off, providing a thrilling true-to-life coming out story that was neither navel-gazing nor embellished. It felt real, which is why fans—gay and straight alike—have rallied behind this show and reevaluated their attitudes toward sexuality and mental health. Now, the show is headed for impending doom of an American remake. And Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Henrik Holm are teetering on the precipice of intensely promising careers, leaving their beloved characters behind. But we’ll always have Isak and Even.

TREY TAYLOR: Can you tell me how you got the role on Skam?

TARJEI SANDVIK MOE: It was an open audition and they announced that they needed people born between 1996 and 1999. So the casting guy came to our school and 1,000 people or more came to audition, and I just signed up. In the last round [of auditions], I got told that I was going to audition for Isak. I also auditioned for the role of Jonas but I got the Isak role. I was watching a movie when I found out I got the part. They said it would take a couple of weeks to find out, so I wasn’t stressing at all because it had just been one week since the audition. They called me and told me they wanted to offer me the part of Isak and I didn’t know what that was but I was happy because nobody had cast me professionally before that. It was only my second audition so I didn’t think it would happen. I didn’t want to tell my mom so I just walked into a room where I could be by myself and I just screamed “Yes!” [laughs]



HENRIK HOLM: I was introduced in the third season. Skam had its breakthrough in Scandinavia in its second season. Everybody knew what Skam was and there were so many people that wanted to join the “Skamily”.

They had open auditions for the third season. They were looking for someone between the ages of 17 and 19. I was thinking about [auditioning] but after two days they had a press release in the Norwegian media where they said, “Hold up, we can’t take anymore resumes.” A few months later, during summer vacation, I found out that my mother had sent in my resume for me and they had tried to contact me through messenger on Facebook. But I wasn’t friends with the girl who was casting so it was in the message requests folder. So I hadn’t seen it and I checked the message and it was dated two months ago. So I got so stressed and messaged her back saying, “Hi, please let me know if you have any more chances!” I put my phone in my pocket and went to work at a local café. On my lunch break, I took my phone out of my pocket and realized I hadn’t pressed the lock button, so I was basically pocket texting her for two hours and sending her voice messages. I was so embarrassed. I thought, “This is the end of me. I’m not going to get any more jobs in this industry.” But for some reason she was very cool and was like, “This could happen to anyone.” And they brought me in for the last week of auditioning. I think it might have been the last day.

MOE: You were the last one! I think you were the last person to audition.

HOLM: Wow, that’s so cool. First I auditioned with another guy and the second round I got to meet Tarjei and we started talking and it was a good fit. The same day I was at the audition with Tarjei they wanted us to do a [role-playing] test. Tarjei was going to tell me that he slept with my girlfriend and I walked out of that room. I really felt that part went bad. I was so down and I was like, “Oh my god, he actually slept with my girlfriend.”

MOE: Because I was so cocky when I was saying it! [laughs] I was like, “Sorry man!”

HOLM: Yeah, you were a douchebag! [laughs] So I started walking home with my head hung, because I was so depressed—I thought I blew my last shot! I got home to my friends that I lived with and I was like, “It didn’t go well.” I was really depressed for like two hours and then [Skam creator] Julie [Andem] called me and was like, “Henrik, how would you feel if I told you you were going to play the part of Even?” and I immediately started screaming. It went from the bottom to the top.



TAYLOR: Tarjei, you said you wanted to play the part of Jonas and not Isak. Why?

MOE: I didn’t know anything about the series and we got to read about all the characters. So I got to read about Yousef, Isak, Mikael, William, Chris … and when I read about Jonas, he seemed like the coolest dude ever! We didn’t know who was going to be the main character, and I was like why can’t I play the cool dude?! I want to be the cool dude, the dressed up guy. In the information about Isak, it said he was manipulative and stuff like that. It also said he was gay and I was like … hmm. There was no problem with that, I just thought that Jonas was the coolest guy ever. I think Marlon [Langeland] did a good job of it. So it was a good thing that they cast me for Isak and Marlon for Jonas, that was the right choice. But back then I wanted to be Jonas so much.

HOLM: Did it really say in the description that your character was gay?

MOE: Yeah! The last sentences of each character’s description included the biggest secrets of that character. Isak’s secret was that he liked boys. So I knew it from the start.

TAYLOR: I thought it was decided later on when characters in the show kept making comments that Isak was gay.

MOE: Even though I knew it the whole time, I wasn’t thinking about it. I don’t know how it is but I don’t think that gay people walk around [thinking about how] they’re gay. My job was playing Isak, not playing “gay”—you know what I mean?

TAYLOR: I also heard that you asked Julie if your character could hook up with Vilde on the show.

MOE: Yeah, that was Ulrikke [Falch]. She was the one hoping for that. I was like, “Yeah, that would be cool,” because I like Ulrikke. She’s so fun and cute, so I thought that would be cool.

TAYLOR: Why did Julie say no?

MOE: I don’t know. I think because she had her own plan for everything. That was just a secret thing Ulrikke and I [shared]. We were just like, “Oh my god we should hook up on the show!” Julie was more like, “How about you guys hook up outside of the show?” [laughs]

TAYLOR: Tarjei, how did you find out that you were going to be the main character in season three?

MOE: She called me from the start of season one, so I knew then. But I didn’t take it seriously. I said, “Julie, this thing is not going to work for three seasons.” I doubted there was even going to be a second season. When we got to season two and [the show] started to get big I thought, “I have a big responsibility.” I wasn’t sure if I could do it. Julie said, “You can do it, if you couldn’t do it I wouldn’t have chosen you to be a main character.” So I trusted Julie more than I trusted myself.



TAYLOR: Have you heard any particular stories that people have told you about how you helped them come out, or helped in dealing with their mental illness?

MOE: I’ve had those experiences when people are so surprised when they meet me and they start shaking and saying stuff like, “You saved me”. Also people who are really deep and serious and are like, “Man, I came out of the closet because of Isak.” That’s big. I think it defends the work of making TV and doing acting. It can change people and it’s such fun work. When I’m acting I’m thinking like, “Oh my god I get paid to do this.” But when you see it could change the world like that I think, “Okay, I deserve my paycheck.” [laughs]

HOLM: I’ve met people who understood that they were bipolar by watching our performances. I’ve also met people that have gotten the courage to tell their families that they were gay, but also so many young people who have struggled with their mental health, for years, and they found something that wasn’t only glamorous and pretty to look at but also very raw and understanding. There aren’t a lot of series that have such a deep level of understanding of homosexuality and mental illnesses.

MOE: I’ve also met straight people—straight people have said like, “When I first saw Isak and Even kissing, I thought that was disgusting, but after watching it and understanding the characters I realized it’s actually not disgusting. They’re just loving each other like everyone else.” So it’s not only gay people accepting that they’re gay but straight people accepting that other people are gay.

TAYLOR: So you have met homophobic people that have changed their mind?

MOE: Yeah they stopped being homophobic because they saw that it’s not the worst thing [to be gay].

TAYLOR: I want to talk about that kardemomme scene—you said it was mostly improvised. I heard you rapped the entire “Express Yourself” song by N.W.A. but it got cut.

HOLM: [laughs] What did happen that day?

MOE: I did rap the whole thing and it got cut out because my rapping was too long. That would’ve made people turn off their TV and be like, “What the fuck is this?! If I wanted to see rapping I would go see rapping!”

HOLM: With my bad beat boxing.

TAYLOR: When you were making the toast was that improvised?

HOLM: We were shooting in Marlon [Langeland]’s apartment. Even’s room is Marlon’s room in real life. They didn’t know what kind of herbs were in his kitchen cupboard, so they just threw out a lot of herbs.There were so many strange names of spices that we had never heard of before.

TAYLOR: Did they let you smoke weed? Was that real?



HOLM: Oh, no! [laughs] I didn’t even get to roll my own joint! I really had a big dream that I was going to get to roll my own joint as the character. But then I got on set, and the costume boss had one of her friends roll up the whole pack; it was like seven joints or something. I was so depressed because I really wanted to do it myself, and personally I didn’t think it was very well rolled, so I wasn’t too satisfied with the joint—but it wasn’t real weed. We had to smoke herbal cigarettes.

MOE: Yeah, it wasn’t tobacco. We smoked some herbs or something. It wasn’t good!

HOLM: It was worse than cigarettes because it made you feel glossed over, and you felt really weird in your mouth and you got a bad taste and a headache. I wish it was real weed but it wasn’t.

MOE: Earlier that day I also shot the scene, which is the first scene in the episode, when I’m laying in the bath and I smoke from that bong. So I did so much smoking that day, I was depressed afterwards. [laughs]

TAYLOR: Henrik, did you have to learn the lyrics to Gabrielle’s “5 Fine Frøkner” for that kitchen scene?

HOLMS: I got a text from Julie the day before and she was like, “Henrik you need to help me find a cool song and it’ll be the song that Even will sing to Isak. She proposed “Ah-Ha” by Take On Me, but that was going to be too cliché. So she proposed Gabrielle, and I personally like Gabrielle, but I haven’t listened to much of her songs, and that special song, “5 Fine Frøkner” is a song that was on the radio all the time.

The whole summer it had been playing and people were kind of sick of it, like “Despacito.” So my immediate response to Julie was, “Please no, don’t make me do that!” I sat down and listened to the song about three times and started dancing and was like, “Yeah, I really dig this song now!” I had to rehearse the lyrics but when we got on set I had only rehearsed it like three times, so it made it more natural that I didn’t know all the lyrics.

TAYLOR: That’s funny because when the show came out and that song played, everybody started downloading it and it became even more popular. [“5 Fine Frøkner” saw a 3,018 percent increase in listening on Spotify after the episode aired, with over 13 million streams].

MOE: I think that Gabrielle owes us some money… [laughs]

TAYLOR: Did you guys have a favorite music moment from the show?

HOLM: I watched [Skam] when it aired on television, but I must say “O Helga Natt” was the first time I watched that scene and heard the song; I was getting goosebumps all over my neck.



MOE: It was so surprising to watch because as we were shooting it, it didn’t sound like that. I always thought it was good but I was just running around the streets of Oslo, and it was the scene where we meet each other and go to the school yard. They were playing this music—

HOLM: It made all the focus go away because we were doing maybe the most sensitive and fragile scene in the whole series. But the moment we walked out in the schoolyard, there was a party next door. It was very funny. I almost forgot that. [laughs]

TAYLOR: Have either of you ever connected with a piece of media or a piece of art as intensely as viewers connected with Skam?

MOE: Yeah in theater, with small theater things.

HOLM: But in the same way as fans who have traveled to see the place and meet the people and everything?

MOE: Well no, but I have also had those big experiences where I’ve thought, “Okay, I’m going to change my life and do things differently after seeing this.”

HOLM: There are so many movies that have changed my view on acting and my perspective of the world and everything, but what was most absurd to me was that these people were actually praising us, or coming to Oslo and walking in our footsteps. It was like, why are they doing this? But my mother explained it very well to me when she reminded me of my huge crush when I was a teenage boy. I was so in love with Jessica Alba, and I was willing to do anything to meet her. I was sitting at home the day I realized I was never going to meet Jessica Alba crying my eyes out. I was so down, and I actually had to go back to that place where I was idolizing who Jessica Alba was, and how she was going to be with me and everything—that made me understand how these people who really connected with Isak and Even’s story wanted to meet us and show us how much it meant to them. That made me open up my eyes to what this show has done for people and that it had a very positive impact on people’s lives.

TAYLOR: How old were you when you were obsessed with Jessica Alba?

HOLM: Oh I don’t know, I was not old at all. I was like 12 years old or something, 12 or 13. I was dreaming about her every night. [laughs]

TAYLOR: Why did the show end?

HOLM: Julie is such an artist that when she started thinking about this project, she was thinking about it and dreaming about it all the time. Doing that on and on for two years, I feel like that was enough. But at the same time I think she also thought about the actors. She didn’t want us to be too connected to our roles, in the way that many series go on for year after year, and the actors become more or less their role.



TAYLOR: Were you shocked when you found out it was ending?

HOLM: It was a shock, but it wasn’t a surprise.

MOE: She made four seasons of TV in two years and she wrote everything; she directed everything; she even chose the music! So the fact that she even did one season is impressive to me, and the fact that she made four is fantastic.

TAYLOR: I’m part of all these Skam Facebook groups. I saw in one of them that these two guys booked a trip to that hotel you stayed in and found the room and ate some mini burgers just like Isak and Even. How does it make you feel when people do things like that?

MOE: I hope they know that that’s not our life, it’s our characters. [laughs] It’s funny, I basically do that without trying because I’m attending [the school the show was filmed in], Hartvig Nissen, and I’m the same age as Isak, which is a total coincidence. But I’m still going to Nissen. I am basically on the set everyday. I also meet a lot of people who come to the school to take pictures of the school and also take pictures of me too. If someone told me two years ago that I would be in a series that would make people from China go to Oslo to take pictures of not that pretty of a school, I would be saying, “What the fuck?!” [laughs]

HOLM: I must say that the greatest part of it is that we achieved something of an impact on people. Skam has actually changed people’s lives for the better. That’s why I think people are trying to walk in Isak and Even’s shoes—their lives actually changed for the better. I’ve meet so many people that were affected by, not only the characters and how we portray them, but also the fan base and the warmth inside of all the fans that it became a family that started connecting with each other from across the world. They found something that they could enjoy together and can talk about as much as they wanted. It has much more than race and culture, it was something that was so real to people, irrespective of where you were from or what sexuality you were. Julie made a series that was possible for everyone to understand even if you were 14 or 90 years old. That’s what I think was so special about Skam.

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Тред в твиттере от автора интервью

цитаты из твиттера

- This was one of my favourite interviews I've ever done. Both were so sweet and we talked for over an hour. In English!
- I had to cut a lot out: they filmed a fake scene in season 4 to throw off fans and the press and make them think season 4 was more Evak.
- Also that Even's character was based on Julie's friend, who left her for a man. But we already knew that...
- My fav bit: a lot of the sex talk between the guys was based on real life sex stories. Tarjei said we'd have to guess which were real/fake!
- I'm just so happy that through my work I can give back to the Skamily! Love you guys 💕

@темы: фото, Isak Valtersen/Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Even Bech Naesheim/Henrik Holm, интервью

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Тарьяй в «Melk»

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«Melk» — сериал про двух матерей-одиночек. ТСМ сыграл там эпизодческую роль

Раз, Два

Раз


С субтитрами с твиттера

Subtitles on the clip for those how haven't seen a translation (video from @isaksvaItrsen translation + subs by me) pic.twitter.com/7yrJ42bNU9

— josefin 🌞 (@linnlarsnhansn) September 5, 2017

Два


АПД Три (с триттера с англосубтитрами)

Tarjei's new part in melk w subs (video originally from danishskamtrash on tumblr, translation by me) (1/2) pic.twitter.com/6aCa4Hfv0u

— josefin 🌞 (@linnlarsnhansn) October 2, 2017

(2/2) pic.twitter.com/hPTubOd8Uu

— josefin 🌞 (@linnlarsnhansn) October 2, 2017

АПД: Три (с твиттера с англосабами)

Tarjei's new part in melk w subs (video originally from danishskamtrash on tumblr, translation by me) (1/2) pic.twitter.com/6aCa4Hfv0u

— josefin 🌞 (@linnlarsnhansn) October 2, 2017

(2/2) pic.twitter.com/hPTubOd8Uu

— josefin 🌞 (@linnlarsnhansn) October 2, 2017

Сам сериал здесь

запись создана: 21.09.2017 в 07:31

@темы: видео, Isak Valtersen/Tarjei Sandvik Moe

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Ина и Чениз на Senkveld

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Пока без перевода

@темы: видео, Chris Berg/Ina Svenningdal, Yousef Acar/ Cengiz Al, интервью

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Интервью с кастом

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Перезалив с англосабами!

@темы: видео, Vilde Hellerud Lien/Ulrikke Falch, Isak Valtersen/Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Noora Amalie Saetre/Josefine Frida Pettersen, Eskild Tryggvason/Carl Martin Eggesbo, Chris Berg/Ina Svenningdal, интервью

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Выступление Мари Магнус на The conferense 2017

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оригинал

@темы: видео, Mari Magnus

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Чениз в танцевальном шоу Skal vi danse

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Анонс:


Джайв


Танго


Ча-ча-ча


Слоуфокс

интервью

VG


TV2 (английские субтитры)

@темы: видео, Yousef Acar/ Cengiz Al

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Доступны английские субтитры

@темы: видео, Jonas Noah Vasquez/Marlon Langeland

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Иман Мескини в журнале Costume 09/2017

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Перевод на английский

Clothes define who we are, says the Skam-star Iman Meskini (20). She feels most beautiful when she looks at herself in the mirror wearing the hijab.

- I was so shocked, says Iman Meskini.

It’s 24 hours until the very last episode of Skam will be broadcast on TV, a few hours until a friend will do her make-up before the big farewell party. It’s three days until she’s going on a month long vacation to her father’s home country, Tunisia, for the first time in several years. It’s a month until she will show up to her initial service in the military at Madla in Stavanger. At the moment, one of our biggest international celebrities right now is sitting on a bench at St.Hanshaugen in Oslo, telling us about when she understood how popular her character Sana had become.

- Like, I’ve looked up to Karpe Diem my whole life. I love their message, their lyrics, that they’ve managed to reach the top without singing about shake booty, that you can come that far with a message that isn’t about money and nice cars. When I realised that I had more followers than them on Instagram… That was insane.

The dimples that have charmed people far outside Norway’s borders are showing.

- It wasn’t until then I realised I was famous.

Recognised in Istanbul

Skam has become a Norwegian invention as important as the cheese slicer. The series has not only beat every record in Norway, it’s also the most watched series on the Swedish SVTs online player, ever. The norwegian teen drama is discussed in countries like Russia and China, soon Shame will be made for the American market, and young people from all over the world travel to Oslo to visit Hartvig Nissen School and use words like “hooke” and “serr”. And back home the TV-series is used in research, is a topic in the official high school exam, and the University of Oslo offers a Skam course. Nobody expected any of these things when writer Julie Andem jokingly told the young actors that “they should aim for world dominance”. Recently, when Iman was in Istanbul for vacation, she was recognised by people from France, Argentina, Portugal and Turkey. In a city of 13 million people, in a muslim country, people stopped her on the street and asked: “Are you Sana from Skam?”

- It was a bit like “wow”! It’s incredible how big it has become, says Iman. She doesn’t think it’s weird that the girl squad from the show has become close both as colleagues and friends.

- There is something unique about our bond, because we have shared the experience of something historic and new. Nobody else can understand that, and I think it will remain that way for a long time into the future.

200 girls wanted the role

In many ways, you could say that Iman Meskini has done for the TV-industry what Karpe Diem did for Norwegian hiphop. The 20-year old, who is born in Oslo and grew up in Kolbotn, is completely uncompromising when it comes to what she wants to do and what she doesn’t want to do. Much like her musical idols. She has been that way ever since NRKs casting agent showed up to Norwegian Centre against Racism’s youth organisation Agenda X, looking for someone to play a muslim girl in a new teen show. They asked for Iman, the high school student who had written a blog post about wearing a hijab and being a muslim girl in Norway. She was immediately critical of the request.

- Hello, I wear a hijab! I thought. It was hard to believe that NRK really would do a character who used one. I had no acting experience, apart from a few “end of the school year”-shows, like playing the rabbit in Hakkebakkeskogen and such. I never imagined becoming an actor, I didn’t even think it was a possibility, Iman says.

- Because I’d never seen girls in hijabs on TV before.

She went to the audition. There were 200 other girls there to try out for the part of Sana Bakkoush. Both girls with and without hijabs. Suddenly it became very important for Iman to get the role.

- When there finally was a role meant for a girl with a hijab, I thought it would have been a bummer if it went to someone who didn’t wear it. So I really went for it during the last audition. When they called me and said: “You’ve got the part if you want it”, it was a surreal feeling.

Tunisian father, Norwegian mother

We saw her pray, we saw her fast, we saw her discuss islam with her mother, her friends and the boy she was in love with. It has been said about the character of Sana Bakkoush that she has done more for Norwegian Muslims than Islamic Council Norway. When Iman Meskini met Erna Solberg during the Eid-celebrations at the end of june, the prime minister praised her for fronting a character that represents the diversity in Norwegian society, and for being a symbol for those who feel like they’re between two cultures. Being called a role model and a barrier breaker is something Iman is really proud of.

- It feels very big. It’s an honour. But I also feel a responsibility when people people start seeing me as a role model. I don’t want to ruin that, so I might become more conscious of what I do. At the same time, I’ve always been conscious of it, because I’ve worn the hijab, she says.

- I’ve thought that when I wear the hijab, people see that I’m muslim, and interpret everything I do from that.

Iman’s father is from Tunisia, and her mother is Norwegian and converted to Islam as a 20-year old. In 7th grade, at a lower secondary school of 500 students in Langhus, where there were few ethnic minorities and even fewer who wore the hijab, Iman made the choice to cover up.

- Even thoguh I didn’t see it around me, I was used to seeing my mother and my older sisters wearing a hijab. My mom is my role model, so it was very natural for me to do like her, says Iman, who says that “it was far from a fashion statement at that time”.

- I see myself a bit in Sana when it comes to being the only one wearing a hijab. But it has never been a problem for me, it has never kept me from making friends. You do get more visible, though. But I… Like, I love Islam. And I am very, very proud to be a muslim. So I wear the garment with pride. Clothes define who you are, and that is what it does with me. I feel like me when I look in the mirror wearing the hijab.

Didn’t own any black clothes

Iman has now worn the head scarf for seven years, and have long gotten used to adapt the hijab to her personal style. To find clothes that go well with Islam’s dress code can be hard for beginners, but Iman has a well tested routine for what she does when she enters a clothing store.

- My brain scans the entire store, and I pass shorts and mini skirts and other things I can’t wear. Then I automatically start analysing garments: Is this see through? It is long enough? Is it covering? What would I need to wear over or under it, to be able to use it? Then I go through the clothes I have at home, that could go with the new piece. And then I decide if it’s worth buying - or if it’s too much of a hassle.

She often buys her hijabs while on vacation abroad, where the selection is better and cheaper. The red hijab she’s wearing today, with a long, white coat, is from Istanbul.

- Before I started playing Sana, I didn’t own a single black piece of clothing! Iman says.

- It was very strange for me to start wearing all-black. We were recording three days in a row, where I only wore black, when Sana was very sad and down. The day after, I wore pink, I really needed that.

She also showed up wearing all pink at the TV Awards Gullruten last year, when the Skam-girls did their first public appearance.

- I was a bit like: “Hi, this is me!” Iman says.

- Was that important to you?

- Yes, it was really important then. I felt for a while that the role of Sana was really distanced from me, because she was so black and dark and sassy. I thought it was hard in the beginning, and I became very like: “Don’t call me Sana. I’m Iman.” There was a very distinct divide between us, and I almost became annoyed if anyone called me Sana.

She thinks for a while.

- When you act, you have to find sides to yourself that you maybe haven’t felt for a while. To bring out the dark side was a bit uncomfortable. I felt a lot of feelings that I hadn’t felt in a while, because I haven’t felt the need to bring out that side of me.

- But it is a side of you that existed?

- I think I’ve always had a dark side in me somewhere. But I’ve always tried to be very happy and positive, I feel that’s very me. So to not even be allowed to smile… That was very weird. I get very tired from playing Sana. It made me heavy mentally. But after a while, I felt that I could more come to terms with who I am, and who she is. And now people call med Sana more than ever.

Iman is smiling.

- But that people yell that now, doesn’t bother me at all. I know that they call out to Sana because it’s her they feel like they know and want to give a hug. And then it’s extra nice when people yell: “Oh, are you Iman Meskini!”

The military has been the goal

She was born in Oslo, but when Iman was around a year old, her whole family moved to Syria. First, they lived in the capital Damascus, later they moved out in the country, closer to the border with Lebanon, living at a small farm. Iman doesn’t remember a lot, but she remember some hens - and a rooster she strongly disliked, because it almost attacked her once. The family stayed in Syria for years.

- The reason we lived there, was because my parents thought it was a very nice country. They still talk about it, how beautiful it is, and how sad it is that Syria is destroyed today. It’s a shame that I don’t remember anything, but those years have actually influenced my language. I speak Arabic with a Syrian dialect.

In Syria, Iman went to preschool, she had a backpack and books and homework at the age of four. So when her family moved back to Norway, and she started going to kindergarten, four year old Iman was surprised. “What, everyone just sits around and plays!” she thought. And then she started reading by herself. She started school, began playing basketball, and after a while became good enough that she’s played for Høybråten in the top league for women. Since she graduated high school last year, she has studied Middle Eastern studies with Arabic at the University of Oslo, while also doing Skam. She hasn’t decided what she wants to be, so far she mostly studies “for the knowlegde”. And she likes a challenge. That is partly the reason why she’ll take a break from her studies next year, not to be an actress, but to be a soldier.

- The military has always been my goal, Iman says.

- Even before I heard about Skam. It’s something I’ve worked for. I don’t know if I’ll be the first in the military wearing a hijab, but if that’s the case, I am used to being the only one. I am really happy I got in. To be honest, I think it’s really cool that they accepted a girl with a hijab into the military.

- Why did you want to do it?

- I wanted to feel stronger. “You can get stronger by training in a fitness studio”, someone said to me. But I didn’t only mean physically, I think mentally too. You’ll challenge your psyche. I like doing things that are outside my comfort zone. That’s how you learn more about yourself.

Lifestyle and passion

After 1.1 million Norwegians had followed the last week of Skam, the series that many call “the best Norwegian drama series ever”, said it’s farewells with the words “Fear spreads, but fortunately love does too”. Iman Meskini is almost surprised by how positively the series has been received, also amongst muslims.

- Really, it’s amazing how little Skam has been criticised. I almost expected more, since the series bring up some topics that are taboo. It wouldn’t have been strange if that had provoked some people, but they have taken it very well.

Of course, there have been some critical voices, she says. Some have said that it is wrong of her to be in a series that involves alcohol, partying and sex outside marriage - things that are Haram in Islam. That she, by acting in the series, show that she supports these things.

- I think that the series recreate the reality. This is how it is. I don’t drink, but live alongside my friends who do. And that is how it is for most muslims who have friends who aren’t, says Iman, who is happy that some of her best friends are non-muslims.

- I think it’s important to not just spend time with people who are similar to yourself, because if you did, you would never get your way of thinking challenged.

- What about when you sometime in the future will chose a life partner, do you have the same mindset as Sana when it comes to marrying a non-muslim boy?

Iman thinks a while before responding.

- Well, I don’t know what’s written for me in the future, she says.

- But right now, with the mindset I have now - which is constantly changing and evolving, of course - I would probably prefer someone who is muslim. Not just someone who says he is muslim, but someone who actually believes in God, and that there is something bigger than us. Because Islam is my lifestyle. Because Islam is a lifestyle. Islam explains how to behave yourself, how to live at home and outside of the home, it’s describes everything, in a way. And Islam is a very big interest for me, so it would be nice to share that interest with a life partner. I think it’s natural to want that.

Yet she is understanding that other muslims think differently on this. She can also understand that young muslims are losing their religious affiliation.

- It’s a bit taboo to be born in a muslim family and say that you don’t believe in Allah, but I don’t think it’s that strange when you grow up in a society where the majority don’t. I think it’s very understandable that you lose faith or have never felt that affiliation.

- Do you think that a lot of people feel a pressure to say that they believe?

- Yes, because who will find out if you don’t? That’s the thing about Islam, you can’t force anyone to believe in God. You can’t force anyone to fast, because they can drink water when they go to the bathroom. You can say you pray five times a day, but if you just go home and sit on your couch, nobody will see. Everything in Islam you really do for yourself. When you believe in God, you believe that he sees you, all the time. Therefore I would like a husband who really believes. Then we’ll automatically live the same lifestyle.

- Would your family find it difficult if you got together with a non-believer?

- No. My mom and I have a very similar mindset when it comes to that. There are a lot of parents who have a lot of opinions on who you should marry, not just muslims, but ethnic Norwegians too. When it comes to muslims, I think it becomes a bit of a double standard. If you’re muslim, you believe in fate. And fate isn’t something that lies in your hands, so you can’t deny anyone marriage with who they’re destined for. It might change for me too, and it probably would have been fine to marry a non-muslim boy. It would just make things a bit harder, and, like Sana’s mom says in the series, a bit more lonely.

Iman is smiling.

- Listen, now I’m talking without stop. When I start talking about Islam, I can keep going for ages. It’s my passion. To not be able to share that with a boyfriend, that sounds a bit sad.

- Have you had a lot of suitors lately, then?

- Hehe, I’ve received messages like: “Salam, are you keen on getting married?”. But I haven’t answered those. They should at least come up to me in person.

Doesn’t want to take off her hijab

Like when watching Skam, after talking to Iman Meskini, you’re left with a feeling that things will turn out well. She has a refreshingly positive attitude towards being a young muslim woman in Norway. She has known the feeling of not being Norwegian enough or nor Tunisian enough, she says, but she thinks you can “chose how big of a problem that should become”. She understands that it is hurtful when people ask where you’re from when you’ve maybe never been to the homeland of your parents, but she has herself settled on that “it’s a resource to be half Norwegian and half Tunisian”. And despite getting a taste of the acting life, she won’t say yes to just any new role.

- It depends on what kinds of offers I get.

- Would you take a role where you couldn’t wear a hijab?

- No, never. But it would be cool if we someday could come far enough that a girl in a hijab could get a role in a movie that is about something completely different than her wearing a hijab. But that she just does, and it’s natural that she does. That would be cool.

- How far away from that do you think we are?

- I think that Skam is a big step in the right direction.

Now Iman Meskini has five times the amount of Instagram followers compared to Karpe Diem. But when she talks about Chirag and Magdi, she still does it with the all consuming enthusiasm of a die hard fan. Of course she attended the concert in Oslo Spektrum last winter, but she didn’t expect to come by a concert she didn’t even know about, while visiting a friend in Fredrikstad. It almost became too much for her. Because there she was, suddenly, backstage, watching her idols from just a few meters away, about to break her fast with the three dates she had brought with her and some water, when she was suddenly waved onto the stage with her friend.

- Then… Then I started crying. I can’t say it was a dream come true, because I hadn’t even dreamt of it. That I happened to be in Fredrikstad that day, after almost staying at home because I was tired.

Iman shakes her head, smiling.

- I’ve never believed in fate as much as I did then.

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Skam gets a prestige prize: This is why she stopped after four seasons

- I’m still waiting for it to hit me how big Skam has become, says Julie Andem, who receives “Peer Gynt-prisen” today.

In April it became known that the already award-winning NRK series Skam, with director Julie Andem in the lead, recieves “Peer Gynt-prisen”.

- It’s very, very fun, Julie Andem says to Dagbladet.

- When we read the list of former winners, we saw that there’s very big names on it, and neither of us understand that we’re on that list. We look at ourselves as a rather small editorial, and I still don’t think we have understood it. I’m still waiting for it to hit me how big Skam has become, Andem says.

Overwhelming attention

Peer Gynt-prisen has been awarded since 1971. Among former winners of the prize are Einar Gerhardsen, Marit Bjørgen and Jens Stoltenberg, Crown Princess Sonja and Thorbjørn Egner, to name a few. Last year it was Deeyah Khan who won.

- Why’s there only 4 seasons?

- There are many reasons for that. But there were a lot of people involved with Skam, and a lot of them are very young.
It’s an overwhelming attention that the project has received from all over the world and it’s good for everyone involved to return to a quieter life. I am pretty sure that Skam ended at the right time, says Andem.

She doesn’t know what her next project is. Until October 1st she’s on vacation. Skam was originally made on behalf of NRK, who wanted to make something for 16-year-olds.

Changed her career

- Skam was created in the extension of the research we did with young people. We tried to find out what the youth could need, what we could give them, says Andem.

- How has Skam changed your life?

- It has changed my career when it comes to job offers, says Andem, who doesn’t want to reveal who’s made an offer.

- And in your private life?

- Various friends and family haven’t seen me so much over the past two years, says the director, who doesn’t like talking about her private life.

- Are you afraid that you will be connected with Skam forever, become “Skam-Julie” after this?

- No, I’m not in front of the camera. If I stopped working now I’d probably be (Skam-Julie). But I hope I will make other things. But if I had remained the woman who made Skam I would be happy with that, says Julie Andem.

She reveals her favorite scene:

- I have many, but there’s a scene I love and I think I’m never getting tired of. It’s season two, episode three, where Willliam gets out of the car in the schoolyard, when the Yakuza guys has been in a fight with them, and William passes Noora. That scene is very cool, says Andem.

She says that her inspiration behind the scene was that she saw a group of boys on a Sunday morning in Majorstua.

- Two of them had bruises and they were so proud. I thought this is fun because it’s so true. That’s what that scene is, that they feel like they are the coolest in the world because they get out of the car with bruises, says Andem.

On friday at 16:30, it’s time for the official award ceremony at Gålå, where Skam actor Ina Svenningdal will be a compere. Prime Minister Erna Solberg will award the prize, a bronze statue of Peer Gynt.

It’s Marianne Furevold, Håkon Moslet and Julie Andem who receive the award on behalf of Skam.

Exclusive group

- It’s a very exclusive group of people, all of which have been great role models. said Olemic Thommessen, chairman of the nomination committee, in a press release.

In the press release from Peer Gynt, Skam is described as a series of strong, complex and deep characters that have rarely or never been shown on Norwegian television. They also write that the series is well-written and seems incredibly realistic.

This years Peer Gynt will go to an institution that has made a positive mark on the socially beneficial plan, and has made Norway known abroad.

The success of the youth series has ensured this, both by having brilliant criticis and reaching out to a wide audience, at home and abroad.

Proud and happy

Skam has been particularly praised for adressing important issues such as assault, rape, homosexuality, cultural differences and pressures in youth environments in an enlightening and innovative manner, and has been sold to countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and the United States.

- Skam has been a crazy ride. So, it might be logical that Julie now gets Peer Gynt-prisen, said Håkon Moslet, editor of chief for Skam, when it became known that the NRK series won.

He says the crew behind the series is both proud and happy about the recognition they now receive from the parliamentary representatives.

The online based drama series is about the life of a group of teenagers at Hartvig Nissen High School in Oslo. Fourth and last season were sent this spring.

(Skam has previously won the Nordic Language Prize for 2016, the award for best tv-series and the year’s innovation during Gullruten 2016. They also won the award “Digital Online Award” of the C21 industry magazine in the UK.)

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- Absolutely amazing to have been a part of Skam

Two of the actors from the popular series Skam were present at Gålå, when the series creator Julie Andem received the award for this year’s “Peer Gynt” on behalf of the series.

Ina Svenningdal and Adam Ezzari performed during the ceremony at Gålå, before Prime Minister Erna Solberg handed over the prize.

- It’s very nice to participate, and it’s fun that it’s meant something that we’ve made Skam, says Svenningdal to NRK.

She was a compere during the ceremony, and she also sang for the audience. The audience included eleven of the former winners of the prize.

Actor Adam Ezzari says it’s affected him that Skam has meant so much to so many people.

- I get a lot of messages from people who tell me how much Skam means to them. Just being part of it has been amazing, he says.


(Продюсер Marianne Furevold-Boland и сценарист Julie Andem )

Keeping in touch

Svenningdal says she never imagined how big Skam would be and that it’s still a little unreal.

- I don’t think anyone imagined it would be as big as it has become. It’s hard to get used to, I don’t think I’ve gotten used to it yet, she explains.

Ezzari came into the series a little later, when Skam had already become known both nationally and internationally.

- I followed the series and thought it was really cool! I recognized all the actors and knew very well who Ina was.
It’s really fun to have seen how it got so big and suddenly get to be a part of it yourself, he says.
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“Andem confirms she’s completely done with Skam now.
- I absolutely don’t know anything about what’s happening with “Shame” and the United States. Everybody asks about it, but it’s completely true, I don’t know anything about it, she says”

“The Skam success has been huge - and although she often likes to use words like “very fun and amazingly funny” it’s also been tough.
- Clearly there has been a lot of pressure. A lot. I especially felt it before season 3.. Then everyone had big expectations, says Andem.”

“She is very clear with the fact that the foundation for the Skam success lies mainly with the youth itself. She has done in depth interviews, many of them up to three hours long. She has been looking for youth environments, getting the youth to talk about themselves”

“- Eventually I’ve also come close to the actors, who to a great extent has contributed to forming the series, says Julie Andem”

“She has always chosen to stay in the background and is very clear that she simply does not want attention around her own person.
- If it’d been only up to me, I wouldn’t be sitting here talking now either.
I’m very fond of staying in the background, but many people have had trouble understanding that I don’t want to be in focus, be in front of the camera, continues Julie Andem”
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Series creator Julie Andem and producer Marianne Furevold-Boland received the “Peer Gynt prize”.

“Andem says it’s both sad and nice that Skam is over. When the process of the series started just over two years ago, she had never thought it would be so big.
- I was very nervous at first if we were to reach Norwegian 16-year-olds. But beyond that, I had no idea about the extent or the amount of viewers we have today, or have had. I don’t think anyone could have imagined it.”

“The plan now is to make an american version of Skam. Andem says she doesn’t know much about the process, but she has faith in those who are behind it.
- We have talked to those who are going to make it, and I think they seem like a smart and clever gang. I have great confidence that they have understood the concept, and the reason as to why Skam has become a success.”

“The series creator says she keeps in contact with all the actors who have been in the series.
- When you work so closely with someone for over two years, you really start loving them. I hope I will stay in touch with them for the rest of my life.”

“Is it going to be a little sad that the Skam family is done?
- Yes, it will be! I’m absolutely sure that it’s the actors I’m going to miss the most.”

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Тарьяй в эротическом триллере «En affære»

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SKAM star in new erotic thriller
“It’s a challenge to play a very sexy scene with a 26 year older lady,” says Tarjei Sandvik Moe.

Most people know him as Isak in SKAM, but now Tarjei Sandvik Moe (18) is to be seen in a new role next fall.

Along with actor Andrea Bræin Hovig, he will embark on a new starring role in the erotic thriller “An affair”. Together they will play a teacher and a student in a relationship. Sandvik Moe says it’s a challenging role to play.

- It’s challenging sсript and a very special role. If there hadn’t been challenging scenes, I would'nt have bothered to do it, says the 18-year-old and smiles.

Special chemistry between Tarjei and Andrea

The director, Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, was early aware of who would be in the film. He had long been planning to work with Andrea Bræin Hovig, but was also quick to bring Tarjei Sandvik Moe.

“I tested the chemistry between Tarjei and Andrea and I discovered that there was something. Although it’s 26 years of age difference, I noticed that there is a spark between them, says Dahlsbakken, adding that he thinks they can be a memorable movie couple. Andrea Bræin Hovig is very pleased with the co star.

“When we met for the first time, I felt I could relax and that this would go well. He is confident in himself and is generous about the project, says Bræin Hovig.

Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken says that it is very interesting for him and the actors to research on such a taboo theme. “It’s interesting to wipe out age, because love has no limits,” says the director.

Is not afraid to stay “skam-isak”
“It’s a fun role. I have not seen anything like this on Norwegian film before so it’s exciting. It’s interesting to explore what is gray zones and what’s right and wrong. It’s taboo with such age differences, says Tarjei Sandvik Moe to NRK.

He has received lots of offers after the success of SKAM, but is picky about what he accepts.

“There has been a lot, but a lot of crap. There is a lot of nonsense I do not want to do. Sometimes it seems that the producer just wants a SKAM name on the cast to get good PR, says Sandvik Moe.

He is not afraid to become an actor who only becomes famous for one role.

“I’m not afraid to stay Isak forever because I know I’m better than that. I take it as a challenge. It’s cool to have something to fight for, he says, referring to the hair that has gone from light curls to dark and short-cut.

The film will be up at the cinema in the autumn of 2018.
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I think it’s a cooperation task. I think Andrea is a very talented and great lady and a cool person, and she’ll make the role very cool, and I’ll just try to play some kind of dreamguy for her, and make the energy between us click. It’s very cool to work with her, there’s a 26 year age difference but at the same time I feel like we have something in common and that we can make something sexy in front of the camera.
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Reporter: A gym teacher who feels like she’s being followed, and a student who’s obsessed with her; this week the shooting of an erotic thriller started, with a known Skam-face in one of the leading roles.

How did the guy we know best as Skam-Isak end up in bare upper body, and in the same bed as Andrea Bræin Hovig?

It’s this young director who’s responsible.

Henrik Dahlsbakken: I’ve wanted to work with Andrea Bræin Hovig for a long time. So it started with this idea, of Andrea. And Tarjei got involved very early, I had him in the cast of another movie, and I had of course seen him in Skam, where he impressed me a lot. And it kinda was when I tested the chemistry between Andrea and Tarjei that I felt “okay here there is something”.

He realised Tarjei Sandvik Moe, and 26 year older Andrea Bræin Hovig would fit perfect as a couple in an erotic thriller.

Henrik Dahlsbakken: 26 years, that’s maybe something you don’t think of as a natural movie couple, but you can tell there’s sparks between them.

Tarjei: It’s kind of a challenging sсript, to say the least.

18 year old Tarjei Sandvik Moe is not unkown to be working with challenging scripts. In the tv-series Skam he played the gay frustrated boy Isak. In the movie “En affære” he plays Markus, a student who’s obsessed with his female gym teacher.

Tarjei: I’m gonna do a pretty.. sexy scene, with a 26 year older woman. But i’m very ready to do it, I think that’s what’s interesting with this movie, to kinda explore what’s gray zones and what’s right and wrong.

Many scenes in “En affære” take place in the bedroom. Sandvik Moe who’s gotten many offers after Skam is picky on what roles he says yes to.

Tarjei: If it hadn’t been challenging I wouldn’t have been bothered to do it.

The spark between the two, we have to wait until next fall to see, when the movie comes to the movie theaters.
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Статья Ульрикке для Dagsavisen 01.08.2017

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We have forgotten to talk about men

You’re allowed to be a boy and wear pink clothes. You’re allowed to dislike sports. You’re allowed to cry.

In this post, I want to separate the biological and cultural gender, I address the problem of the term Americans call gender, not the biological gender (sex).

Equality politically, economically and socially has highlighted women’s liberation. In spite of important progress towards equality, it’s time to focus attention on how gender roles suppress and limit all people. The women’s struggle has focused on fighting for the possibility that women can be several things: sexually liberated, politically active, career women, housewives, feminine and masculine. We have required our place and fought against prejudice and oppression for years. We’re still fighting. The women’s liberation is still being put out as a movement that’s seeking to take the power and privileges from men. As if only one gender can have freedom and power at a time. But we’re free together or trapped together.

Historically, men have been assigned their place and their privileges. As a man in society, you will be given economic and political benefits based on what you have between your legs. A man is expected to be aggressive, a leader, determined. He must be masculine, strong and demand his respect.
A man’s role implies expectations of behavior and characteristics, and there is little room for deviations.

Homosexual men have redefined and at times undermined conventional masculinity. I’m a big supporter of people taking place in public and giving a face and name to divergence.
Strong role models that are sure of their own expression and identity are important for people to see themselves in similar roles and positions. Good role models are those who inspire and challenge.

As an example of a good role model that challenge gender norms, I want to lift the artist Kristoffer Cezinando. Vulnerable, imaginative, committed, sensitive and inquiring. He challenges our idea of ​​what a man what should be, and not the least what a male role model should be like. Furthermore, we have people fighting for trans rights, like Christine Jentoft, the Dragartist group Great Garlic Girls, Luca Dalen Espeseth, Emma Ellingsen, Noah Lindaas, Swedish Freja Lindberg and a bunch of other important names who’s standing in front row, claiming their space and voice. Let’s give it to them. We must start listening.

You’re allowed to be a boy and wear pink clothes. You’re allowed to dislike sports. You’re allowed to cry. You’re allowed to be small and thin. You’re allowed to bake. You’re allowed to like cats. You’re allowed to be damn confused by a toolbox. You’re allowed to wear makeup. You’re allowed to be loving. You’re allowed to avoid a fight. You’re allowed to express your feelings. You’re allowed to like Barbie.

And you know what? Girls are allowed to take space, they’re allowed to throw far and hard, they’re allowed to take place in the Army, they’re allowed to play football, they’re allowed to be angry.
It may sound primitive and unnecessary to mention it, but it’s been a year since the England Football Association, in the document “Considerations for increasing participation in women and girls’ football”, suggested that girls should be encouraged to play football by wearing colourful outfits that smelled good, more breaks during training so the girls had time to be on social media and listen to music, or offer rewards like stickers and other prizes to meet up on training, I know myself that I would’ve kept investing in sports if the coaches and sports clubs had taken my dedication and talent seriously.

We challenge gender stereotypes all the time, not without struggle, but we need to continue consciously. We need to find a new way of socializing children. Instead of encouraging emotional strength and competitive masculinity for boys, or caring qualities and superficial values ​​for girls, we must meet their needs and their nature so that they can develop as full-fledged people.

We hand out roles for children, who have limited tools to understand and, not the least, fight against expected gender differences. Traditional stereotyping of gender on TV and in design and marketing of toys, doesn’t only affect girls.

In the book “Menn forklarer meg ting” (Men explains things to me), Rebecca Solnit writes, “What’s wrong with the male gender? There is something about how masculinity is presented, about what’s being celebrated and encouraged, and how the expectations are passed on to young boys that need to be addressed. We must design new thoughts and ideals about masculinity and power.”

We’ve forgotten to talk about men. Gender roles were not created to suit people but society. Gender roles doesn’t care about people’s wishes or primary needs.

We’re all trapped in a constructed idea of ​​what it means to be man and woman. We managed to redefine what it means to be a woman, is it time we do the same with men? Is it time to give room for those who doesn’t identify with A or B?

It’s not up to me to demand that anyone gives up their own truth.
It’s not without reason that people want to categorize and put each other under labels. It’s them and us. It’s similarities and differences. It’s known and unknown. I just want to remind you that the unknown is not dangerous. I want to encourage you to give difference more space. To listen. After all, it’s only people who want to be seen and recognized for who they are.
Doesn’t everyone want that?

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@темы: статьи, разное, Vilde Hellerud Lien/Ulrikke Falch

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Подкаст с Ракель в программе Harm og Hegseth 14.07.2017

[SKAMFAN]

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@темы: Linn Larsen Hansen/Rakel Ofsti Nesje, интервью

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Подкаст с Ченизом в программе Harm og Hegseth 30.06.2017

[SKAMFAN]

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Краткое саммари-перевод

- julie and mari came to herman’s dance performance, but cengiz didnt know. afterwards they met backstage.
- julie later asked herman for cengiz’ contact details and then asked him if he wanted to audition for s3 (this was obviously before s3).
- he would audition for the role of even!!!
he turned it down, he didn’t think he’d be able to play even convincingly and thought someone else could do it much much better than him.
- he got called in for s4 at the start of his study and he got a fake sсript to audition with.
- he auditioned as sana’s brother (who wasn’t called elias back then).
- he had to end his scene with a rap but then he went all out, which made iman and julie laugh, and julie liked that he wasnt embarrassed and that he was being himself.
- after that scene he got the same sсript, but this time he had to flirt with sana. he thought it was difficult but ended up doing something none of the people who auditioned did so he stuck out.
- he auditioned on wednesday and got the call from julie on friday. they started out with awkward small talk, and then she told him he got the role and immediately also told him he had to kiss josefine/noora.
- he had to get used to that idea since he has a girlfriend.
- julie told him from the beginning there wouldnt be any kiss scenes with iman, which was iman’s choice that was respected by everyone.
- when they filmed syng it was still weird to him to have to kiss josefine, they hadnt talked much even though shes really nice.
- he found out later they went to the same school for 2 years.
- he’s become really good friends with the balloon squad. he was still freaking out about the upcoming kiss and they all supported him and didnt rile him up or anything.
- right before their scene he went up to josefine and went: josefine, i’m stressing out so much, what should i do?
she went: oh noooooooo, come here!!!
she completely understood, after her first kiss scene she screamed: I CHEATED!!!
- they only had to film it twice.
- he was asked how he felt about people saying the season had its limitations because they couldnt show kiss scenes. he said he thinks kiss scenes arent always necessary to show people love each other.

- when it comes to ‘feelings’ on screen, julie tries to get them to improvise a lot to create something more natural. this became easier as time went by for cengiz and iman.
- the swan scene was not yousef but completely cengiz. he hadnt seen it and they were splashing water like ‘yousef and sana’ when suddenly the swan was 2 meters away. the comment about them biting your finger off was natural as well, it was his own scared reaction.
- morten asks him if he knows about “the look”, william and even had it. he asks him if julie had him audition for “the look”. she didnt but she did ask him to express really random emotions “be embarrased, but not too strong”.
- he agrees that in 2017 it sounds weird that a muslim like iman girl cant marry a non-muslim, but he can be together with a christian girl. he doesn’t want to speak on behalf of all muslims so he thinks it’s hard to really comment on it being right or wrong.
- he believes s4 has taught norwegians a lot about islam and that they understand muslim youth better now. he uses the first clip as an example where sana says “i can have sex etc, i just choose not to”.
- if julie had written sana as a muslim who threw away her hijab, got drunk and had sex with yousef he doesnt think it had gone down well. even though he knows there are plenty of muslims who do, it would still seem offensive. he thinks the season wouldve received more hate than love then.
- he’s reveived only postive feedback from religious people, others as well
- nrk got everyone to go see a psychologist. julie was also always there for him in the first few days after he first appeared and he thanks her a lot for that.
- julie could be scary to others sometimes, but to him she was nothing but sweet.
- yousef went on holiday to turkey, he never “left/traveled away from” sana.
- he likes how they ended sana and yousef and thinks it created “after talk”, what could have happened after he got back. skam’s never over. (not a hint to it coming back, keep on dreaming)
- even though yousef wasn’t in the final scene, cengiz went to the filming. the final filming was difficult and people cried.
- “skam is over, but life isn’t”
- morten can’t get over how pretty he is and says he’s even prettier in real life than on camera.
- people havent found his home address somehow so they sent letters etc to his brother. he’s wondered if he should give it so they can send it directly to him (bless this child) and morten goes: some advice, don’t give out your home address
- he’s gotten a lot of marriage proposals on instagram, he sometimes likes those comments and then people go: (cengiz in a high pitched english voice) ahhhh he liked my comment!!!
- he started dancing when he was 12. dancing means so much to him. creativity, motivation, postivity, love, it’s all to do with dance where he can completely be himself.
- he’s 'tasted’ alcohol but has never been drunk.
-he wants to use his social media platform to inspire people.

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bonus: статья на VG.no

@темы: balloon squad, Yousef Acar/ Cengiz Al, интервью

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Обращение Юлии Андем к фанатам

[Saha Miniloki]

A photo posted by Instagram

Перевод:
Dear coolest fanbase on earth

Today It’s been a month since Skam ended. I’ve been so tired of writing that I couldn’t even write a insta post. But today I can, and you deserve a thank you post, because fuuck, what a tsunami of love you created online the day after the finale!! It was so fantastic to follow, and I got very proud and moved. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for all the messages you write me. I can’t answer everything, but I see each and every one of you.
And thank you so much for Thankyouskam.com - it’s so inspiring to read all your stories <3 *cries in norwegian*

I don’t know what to do next, but I promise to keep you guys updated. And no matter what, I promise to keep telling stories to everyone who wants to listen. Hope you have a great summer and that you never stop spreading love totally shameless around you. <3 (To all the international fans: Sorry for writing in Norwegian, it doesn’t mean I dont love you, it only means I really LOVE that you are learning my tiny language and that you are helping each other translate. I think It’s very beautiful <3)
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@темы: Julie Andem

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Skam festen 23.06.17 ntb

[Saha Miniloki]

Интервью с Хенриком
Видео
(не знаю, где достать оригинал)

перевод на английский

I: Hi!
H: Hi!
I: Can you tell me a little about the fact that this is done now?
H: I don’t think I’ve realized it yet. I think I need a long summer break. And then It’ll hit me what this means and what I’ve learned from it. But it’s a bittersweet feeling. I’ve learned so much and at the same time I don’t want it to end. But I think it’ll be great for all of us to try new projects and new characters.
I: What’s up next for you?
H: That’s exciting to see. I don’t wanna say anything concrete yet. But I’m doing acting and I’ll continue doing that. So.. we’ll have to wait and see.
I: Now we’ve gotten a little Isak and Even clip this season too. But is there something you feel is missing, is there something you’d wish to tell?
H: Through the character Even? Oh my god Even is such a complex character that he should have had his own season. But, now there wont be any more seasons. So I still feel there’s a lot Even could have told, and a lot he could have taught others. Through his story. So of course. I’m sure I could have played this character for years. But it’s weird that it’s over.
I: And now the fourth season, last season, what do you think has been the most exciting in this season?
H: This season has maybe been the most important one, I think. Because of… the fact that you need to inform people about how religion works and how religious people talk to each other. I think there has been so many nice conversations between Yousef and Sana, that has informed Norwegians and taught me a lot about how… because I’m not religious myself it’s very important for me to understand how things work. How love is created/starts. And how to do it with religion as a barrier, where one character isn’t religious but is a very good person, and all the good conversations they’ve had, I’ve learned so much! And Julie never cease to impress with her sсript.
I: If we’re thinking a few years ahead, how do you think, hypothetically, how does Even’s life look?
H: I hope he is happy with Isak. I hope they live happily and.. make a lot of movies together and.. adopt a child, the whole package! And that he’s just being himself. I hope Isak manage to complete high school, and that they get great jobs. That’s important.
I: A last greeting to the fans, do you have that?
H: Of course. Thank you so much that you’ve been following us through all of these seasons. It has been an incredible journey. And it had been nothing without all the fans. All the commitment and everything around it. It has been an experience that is hard to describe.
I: Thank you!
H: Thank you!

@темы: видео, Even Bech Naesheim/Henrik Holm, интервью

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Хокон Мослет и Балуны в Дании (большое интервью) 22.06.17

[Saha Miniloki]

С английскими субтитрами

альтернативный текстовый перевод

Everybody introduces themselves. And Håkon says that they’re still producing and thats why everybody couldn’t be there. Håkon likes Eskilds character the best.

Mutasim: Hei hei. My name is Mutasim and I play Mutasim. And I don’t know what else to say. My favorite character is Chris - girl Chris. Good actress.

Cengiz: should I introduce myself? I’m Cengiz, its like Ghengis Khan. (pronunciation of his name) I’m 19. And turning 20 today. No yesterday. What else should I say. I’ve never done any acting before. So this is very new for me. But its very fun to be here and speak before you. My favourite actor is many actually. I think like Håkon over there that Eskild has been really good. Chris. Really all, many are good. And I also think Vilde. Of course I like all the characters. Sana is a really important character. I support all of them. All my colleagues are great.

Simo: Hi, I´m Simo and I´m Sana’s brother, Elias. My favourite actor, I wanna say first everyone is amazing. But if I have to choose one it would be Sana.

Yousef: My name is Yousef, and I play Mikael. My favourite character is maybe Even. An (unpredictable?) character.

Adam: Hi everybody, I’m Adam and i play Adam. I’m 18 and really an artist and suddenly I’m an actor. My favourite is Jonas or Marlon. I’ve known Marlon for many years. We used to skate together and are buds. And one day he was like, “Adam I’ll be in this new show on NRK,” and we were like, “okay… Is that cool?” And it was really fun to watch how it turned out.

Q: Many of you share the name of your character. And a lot of us are curious to know, how similar are you to your character?

Mutasim: If I understood you correctly (the boys are having trouble understanding the danish) I actually felt that the balloon crew is quite like us, and I think maybe that’s why Julie picked us. Because she wanted us to be ourselves. Vilde or Sana is a big difference. Sana is two really different people. Iman likes to wear colours and smiles all the time, while Sana…. Well you know what Sana is like. She’s cool though, both as Sana and Iman.

Cengiz: Yeah, Yousef isnt quite Cengiz. He’s not muslim, amongst other things, and Cengiz is muslim (I dont know why he chose to refer to himself in third person here. Lol), that I need to point out. Yousef’s done something dumb, sort of, that Cengiz wouldn’t do in real life. He’s, like the character thats supposed to, like, I was called, Julie told me, “you’re gonna be the next William,” and I was just like, “I don’t wanna be William!” So I chose to twist him into this really nice chap, a good guy, but then he messed up I think, or I was set to make him mess up, that was the job, He’s not like me. Mostly I’m nice like Yousef, so that similarity we do have, but I try not to play Cengiz, because thats what I like, to be an actor, so thats what I do, act.

Simo: Elias Bakkoush, ehm, I can’t see much of myself in him, to put it like that. Elias is a character who is lost. He can go from fighting outside of a party to sitting on the swings and having a heart to heart with his sister, but in some situations I can see myself in him. He’s a spontaneous dude who’s quite hilarious. So I’ll say its partly true.

Yousef: Yeah, so I might not have gotten a lot of opportunities to get to know the character I’m playing. So lots of the sсript is improv where we get to be ourselves and that works really good really (yes he said really really). So its really not much difference between how I behave on set and….

Adam: yes, I agree totally with Mutta I think Yousef and Elias and …..Simo, sorry, sorry, is quit similar. I feel like we often play much of ourselves, like Yousef said. Theres a lot of improv and then we really are just ourselves so that works out. (everyone cracks up)

Q: A lot of people want to know how much is improv and how much is scripted when you make the YouTube videos. (She said a lot more, but danish is ehh)

Mutasim: Oh, okay, I can say that the first episode was… then we had a sсript, but all the other ones there wasn’t sсript we were just ourselves, we laugh.

Cengiz: we’re ourselves I would say.

Mutasim: Yes, and there, yes

Cengiz: Yeah, we’re mostly ourselves. But we also have to think about what has happened in the show when we record because there was a period there where Elias´ sister walks in mid take and Yousef doesn’t like that, and I tried to make that show, not like yourself Cengiz, you have to like think about whats happened in the show before that, and you have to speak based on that, but based on that we are ourselves, so that’s whats kinda important to keep track of, or like keep control over, that whats happened in the show so far and whats gonna happen kind of, so you have to think about that kind of stuff. Because you guys are like “oh, yeah, cool.” But we think about everything, kinda. Soo, yeah, thats what I would say.

Simo: Well, the youtube videos mostly goes like we get a subject or a challenge and based on that we improv. There comes some situations out of the youtube videos that’s not in the episodes, but I feel like the Youtube videos, for my own part, has given me stronger bonds to these guys, instead of just playing the regular show, so …

Yousef: Yeah, its like Simo says, we get a totally different subject, but the way we approach it is all up to us. I feel like thats why the youtube videos has become really natural. I felt that several times I wasn’t aware if the camera was on or not. And the laughter in many of those videos are totally real.

Adam: Now they said most of it. But one thing that’s attached to the previous question is that one of my closest buddies sent me a snapchat and I don’t remember exactly what he wrote, and that was like last week, and he didn’t think, he thought, or he knew that we were a part of Skam, but he thought that we were Adam and Yousef and Simo and not the characters, and I was like “huh?” So then it seemed like we were a lot like we are in real life, since he didn’t get that it only was…laughter drowning the ending, so yes, we’re ourselves a lot, like they said improv.

Håkon: I would like to comment on this. It’s like this, Skam is a drama series, its not a documentary from Oslo. I just have to underline that. And those who play in the show are actors. Also it’s like this, Julie is an amazingly talented director and all the actors get scripts and in some parts of the sсript, especially dialogue parts, there’s room for improv, but the actors are hired to play parts, and it’s maybe like here two of you have quite big parts, Simo and Cengiz, while you other three have maybe smaller parts, and then it is, then maybe you use yourself a bit more. But when it comes to Hei Briskeby, thats maybe where, in the Skam universe, there is the highest degree of reality meeting fiction and there is sliding transitions and sсript in a lesser degree. So that’s a totally different kind of production, but the Skam production is reminiscent of a drama production, its just done with a lot less money and its not a lot of people on set. So yeah.

(I swear, its not my translating, the boys start sentences and end them mid-sentence and never finish a sentence, and just ramble) @maksisskambackwards

Q: Did you know each other before Skam? How is your relationship outside of Skam?

The guys all look confused. Don’t understand the question. Someone shouts it in Norwegian.

Mutasim: I’m sorry. I don’t… Yeah. No, we didn’t know each other before Skam. But I feel like we clicked the moment we met. We didn’t shake hands, it was like HUG. Bro, bros.

Yousef: Bro.

Mutasim: Bros. Instantly. Like. So. That was it yes.

Cengiz: I could … Yeah okay - passes the mic to Adam

Adam: I have to tell a story. From the first day on set. When we met. Me and Yousef knew each other from before. We went to Elvebakken in real life. This year. And when we arrived on set we just greeted each other and stuff like that and got to know each other and left to meet the girls. And they thought we had known each other for like ten years and we had known each other for like ten minutes. So we clicked really well together and it’s turned into us hanging out a lot in our spare time too. So we’ve gotten to know each other better and better.

Yousef: With balloons. Every time.

Simo: For my part I didn’t know almost who any of these guys were. Save from Adam, cuz I had heard some of his songs. Adam sorry (don’t know why he apologized?). But like they said, the first day, we just had chemistry. And in addition to the Briskeby vids where its just us alone, where our bond got even stronger, and its not just that, we meet a lot. In our spare time. At each others houses. So we kinda have this buddy bond, where it feels like we’ve known each other for years when really we’ve known each other for three years. three months I mean.

Cengiz: ehhhhhhhh…. I lost it. What is it were talking about.

Mutasim: We’re talking about friends.

Cengiz: Yeah, friends, right. Of course. We didn’t know each other. We didn’t. And I live in Drammen so I don’t have anybody in Oslo. The only one I know in Skam is the guy who plays Penetrator Chris and thats my best friend and it’s actually through him I’ve been spotted on stage by Julie Andem. So thats why I’m here really. So yeah, its nothing more than that.

Mutasim: And we’re really alike too, sooo…

Q: What is it like to be in a Norwegian show known all over the world? What is it like to see comments on your instagram feeds (and something something)

Mutasim: It’s actually kinda crazy. It’s become so big. Like you get messages from people in Russia, and they don’t write Norwegian, the write Russian. And to me thats just symbols, like “dsjo dsjo dsjo”, and I like don’t understand it, and just write question mark and a heart. So it’s kinda like that. It’s cool.

Cengiz: Yeah, it’s been a really big transition. That I have to underline. It’s been really tough for me. It’s been really tough. It was like a quick change, and suddenly you get these looks like, how do you act considerate. You don’t want to come off as cocky or mean, you want to smile, but when someone serves you looks should you, I mean you know she looks at you, you can see it, and do you look back and smile or should you just walk like a normal person? If you walk normally you can be perceived as a cocky type, but, I don’t know, its kinda… its kinda… it was really hard to be considerate, and it’s still really hard to be quite honest. Like he says you get a lot of messages and you want to answer everybody but you don’t have the time to. And if you answer they send a new message back and if you answer that they send a new one, right? And it is annoying, you have to be honest and say that, if you get ten messages, or a hundred or whatever it turns into, you don’t have a private life anymore (omg he sounded so hurt here:/) and that’s something you have to be honest and say. But it is really nice! Because you know they send messages because they like you and then I want to come back with something, but then I try to communicate via my Instagram pictures. You understand? So I try to show the fans that I love them for loving me and that it’s them putting me where I am. So I don’t want to come off as mean at all, and I’m really not. So if anyone wants to meet me here now, of course I’ll speak with them. That’s no stress. That is only nice. So yeah. That’s what I’ve got to say.

Simo: Me? Well it’s not to much to add. It is shocking. I didn’t know it would be like this, you know. From 250 followers to yeah, 10,000. But like Mutta said before you get a lot of messages in languages you don’t understand and its not that great to leave them unseen, so usually I answer with emojis like this (*palms together*). I don’t know if that’s rude or not, but it’s better then nothing. But I feel like for them they feel that I give them something. For them its something important, the work we do. And that we really, WE really appreciate all the love and yeah support we get.

Yousef: yeah, I’m kinda spaced (with reality) when it comes to social media. Cuz everything happens behind a screen, so it’s difficult to answer because you can’t satisfy everybody. But I try to respond to serious approaches to the best of my abilities. So yeah, that really. But it hasn’t really dawned on me yet, that it’s people from all over the world watching (mumbles something).

Adam: It’s like they said, totally crazy. And often I open messages, and like Mutta, I press heart. That’s what’s fastest to write. And then they’re like “OMG you answered” and I’m really lying in bed and having nothing else to do. It’s not like I … I’m like “are you seriously that happy?” I’m on my phone all the time, like. But it’s really really nice and fun and I wish I could answer everybody, but you can’t. And there’s one more thing I wanted to say in reference to fans from all over the world, like I said I do music, in Norwegian, and many people go like “awesome song. I don’t understand what you say, but it’s really cool.” And I released a new music video a while back and the top comment with most likes is ”I don’t understand a single word but this is the best song ever.” But it is really really fun and nice.

Q: Kosegruppa dk wonders: What is it like to work together with Iman?

Cengiz: *Repeats the question* I can put it like this: we were a lot alike. We laugh all the time, mess around like hell, and were not afraid to touch each other, there doesn’t need to be limits to touching, but that we know. She’s a very good lady, or girl. And really fun to work with, and easy to get to know, and so am I, so we clicked pretty fast, and thats what was important to me, who was completely new this season and was supposed to take on that role and had never done acting before and I knew already from the beginning that I was supposed to kiss Josefine and I was really stressed about that. And i spoke with her (Iman) about how I should do all that and she helped me through all of it and it was her getting sad right so… That was really strange. I was thinking okay so now I’m in the acting world, and it’s actually just like this. It’s fake, all of it, you play it real. There was a time where my girlfriend came to me and said “this is really sad to say Cengiz, but I got really jealous when I watched you in that one scene, and you have to be allowed to do it but I think it’s kinda sad, but you have to hear that you (act like you’re really) in love and it’s really good. Because all the fans believe in it.” But it wasn’t easy either. It was harder playing emotional scenes with Iman than playing the kissing scene, actually, because it’s about looking this person in the eyes, and it’s Iman and you’re like what the fuck am I looking at, you know! It’s been like ten minute staring contests without laughing, but its that moment when you started to laugh it became sweet, you know. Julie just gets it, she knows what to do, like, so it wasn’t so hard to play it either. Because Julie got it, she pressed, she played us really, tricked Iman and me into playing a romantic scene in a fun way so it became romantic on screen. It was fun then and there, my god. But it is really easy to act with her, at least, she’s really talented and really positive all the time, all the time yes. I’ve never seen her mad or anything. Yeah, really fun all the time. The whole team. Thank you to the whole team for being there for me and supporting me, I was totally lost, like I’m kissing Josefine, fuck, and the first time I met her I just (was like) “hi.” And in my mind I was like “I’m kissing you later” like in front of camera. Not before or after, it’s so strange you don’t get to try before either, because then it’s wrong because it’s private, but in front of the camera it’s not private and then you can do it, that’s like, I think it was weird, but everyone on the team helped me a lot with it, so that I really appreciate.

Q: same question for Simo.

Simo: Iman, Sana that is, I got the part because she and I had a brother and sister connection when I auditioned. That’s why I got the part. But I can be honest and say that at the beginning of the season it was quite scary, to put it that way. Because it’s something unfamiliar for me, I had never thought to do this my whole life, but behind the camera she got me to forget that, forgot the stress, helped me make it. And in many scenes, amongst others, the swing set scene, I actually forgot that we were in front of the camera and that we, that I wasn’t actually sitting there talking to my biological sister. So the connection I feel like I have with Sana, or Iman. Iman, sorry, that I feel is quite real. Like when we’re behind or in front of the camera.

(They start taking questions from the audience)
Q: Yousef, when you made the movie in s3 did you know that you would be in season 4?

Yousef: No. Then I was just an extra. But I think maybe it had something to do with the chemistry I had with Even/Henrik. And maybe Julie thought it would be cool to bring him back again. That was a while ago now. Yeah, so I didn’t know that I was joining.

(lots of mumbling because people are afraid to ask)

Q: I have two questions. 1: what episode is your favourite? 2: Who is Julian Dahl in Skam?

(all the guys immediately ask Håkon what the question was)

Adam: That’s hard. But I have to say the balloon scene. Some clips or pictures of us with the balloons (were already leaked) and we were already marked as the balloon squad before the season was released. And all my friends wondered to. When is it coming, when is it coming. And when it did arrive, I was hidden behind all the balloons, but it was very funny when that clip came out. And then social media ran off. And that was fun. And then the next one was, who’s Julian Dahl?

(lots of suggestions from the audience)

Yousef: I’m sorry to tell you that I’ve never watched Skam.

(everybody laughing)

Yousef: I saw season 2 during a night marathon. And I watch this season, I have to, but favourite episode… I say the balloon scene. I don’t know who julian dahl is.

Cengiz: Favourite scene? That really has to be the scene that was most challenging for me, because it was, and that was episode 9. because because

(audience interrupts. “What scene?”)

Cengiz: What scene… It’s the last date. It’s because of the challenge, and I love that. Because we got the sсript four hours before. And taped it til 0145 in the night and we sat there freezing really, and I forgot my lines and I could get out of character because Yousef was supposed to say a lot, and it had to be literal (as written in the sсript), because it was a lot of facts, you know, so then Cengiz couldn’t just toss in some bits here and there. Maybe he could be (??? this boy talks so fast y’all) when he said it, but that you couldn’t see. It had to be word by word. And you got the sсript four hours before. And that’s what was really fun with Skam, it was really flexible. You weren’t supposed to get the sсript a week prior, because then you just memorized it and didn’t get to show what you wanted to bring to the character. And that’s why that was my favourite scene. Because it was really challenging, and it was actually one of the…. It came out sweet, plain and simple. It was. It was some, you kinda don’t get to know if they’re together yet, or, they’re just one date, like, they’re good and that’s what you get to know. And that’s challenging, yeah. That’s what i have to say, and i don’t know about Julian Dahl.

Mutasim: Favourite scene? I’m on board with “fy faen” at the tram station, when we walked, that was quite cool. But. And that talk Elias had with Sana. That was quite sweet and yeah that was pretty good I think. Julian Dahl maybe you should answer *hands mic to Håkon*

Håkon: I’m Julian Dahl. No, best scene is the one you haven’t seen yet. I think now in this season it’s been several scenes in Skam history, with characters and story and music that goes up in a higher unity. And the Fy Faen clip with you guys, is like a crazy example of that, when (we?) realized it had 300,000 streams and now it’s passed 20 million. When I saw that I was jumping in my chair because it was so amazing to see how the use of music in a film, tv series, … and now it’s also been with “Jeg håper du har plass” with S´Cezinando and that scene where it’s kinda a story where it’s like Sana is pressed so far down, Julie has pressed her, she’s in such a bad place, it’s almost not possible to feel worse, and then the release comes with that Cezinando song, I think that was, that’s art. And I also think the music in the last scene with you (to Cengiz) on the docks in Oslo is great.

*gives the mic away* *audience interupts* “Julian Dahl???!”

Q: I would like to hear what you guys do when you’re not acting in skam. I would like to hear from some of you, and if you plan to be actors in the future or is it just for now, what are your plans.

Mutasim: I used to play football and then I became injured and now I’m training to get back. And if I want to keep acting? Yes of course I would like to. And I would like to study, so…

Cengiz: Yeah. I haven’t been acting before at all. I danced a lot. Played football for eight years but decided to give that up. That was kinda tough decision for me, because boys play football and they’re not supposed to dance in Drammen where I come from. It was a tough decision for me then and there, but I chose to go all in for dancing and that turned out really well. I love to dance. I like to show my feelings for dancing without speaking for example, so that the audience sees what I’m bringing. And that I would like to keep doing. I will keep doing that because we’re making a dance video soon, or we’re doing it now, we’re on it, because there’s a lot of people wanting to see that. After Skam I have a project that I can’t say anything about, plain and simple. And i feel like i have a responsibility towards 200,000 fans and to influence them or inspire them in a positive way and then I want to use my creativity and what I’m inspired by to motivate them in a positive way to do something positive, plain and simple. And that I’ll do within my dancing and by posting pictures with meaning like a project I just did called antisocial where I got the idea from my sweater where it said antisocial and it went really well. People didn’t get the message until the last picture and then they got what the whole thing was about. So being creative is what I really want to do and express myself through several channels within tv, dancing, marketing, project management and I have a really high self esteem in a positive way so I’m really open for everything. So I feel like I can do most anything.

Simo: well, I’ve completed high school, or like you call it “gymnaset”, is that correct? Luckily. I work. I do child care and youth work. That’s my education and I would really like to study more in college. And about acting, if I get another offer I wouldn’t refuse it. I feel really comfortable on set, in front of the camera, so we’ll see what the future holds.

Yousef: yeah, so I’m still in high school. I’ll actually go (???) And I’ve danced for six years. Breakdance. But I’m not that active on that front anymore, because I’m really kind of tired from it. I don’t have any really exciting plans for the future, other than take what I can get. And I read a bit and I’m interested in astronomy. And yeah. That’s it really.

Adam: Yes, like I’ve tried to bring to the front as much as possible today, I think I’ve said it two times already, I’m an artist. I got my diploma from high school two days ago, so now I’m fiiiinally done with school. So now I can, and shall, go 100% in on my music, and go for the music, and make a lot of music, so that’s really the plan, I don’t have a job or other school I attend at the moment. Mom and dad aren’t too happy about that, but I’ll show them with my music.

Q: Whats your favourite line that you said?

Cengiz: Favourite line. There’s been a lot, or some of those improvs, because it’s been really natural. But now I have to be completely honest and say that I don’t remember because it’s been a lot of lines. But really I like the conversations between Yousef and Sana in the last episode. Or in this season it’s probably lots of other Yousef lines in the other episodes, but right now I don’t remember unfortunately. But for now it’s really that season, or that episode, that’s it.

Simo: I think, on my part, my favourite line is when i sat on the swings with Sana and said “What’s more important, to walk around saying you believe in Allah or living like you believe in Allah?”

Yousef: I don’t have any lines. So i think the favourite is the only one and thats like “Let Sana try” or something.

Adam: I think the line I have is the one right after that. Sana should toss Elias´ socks into the lamp “just when Snoop Dog says smoke weed every day”

Q: What do you think this season means for young people in Norway, or Scandinavia?

Lots of danish

Håkon: I think it is really positive both for minority youth and majority youth. Like we spoke of earlier, it brings a more nuanced picture, and that the world isn’t so black and white as you can get the impression of through media and comment sections in the tabloids. So I think it’s a really important season, and personally maybe the season I’m most proud of. That Julie went for Sana’s story, it could have been five other characters. Five other directions, but she did it. She had the guts for it. And it was originally an area she knew very little about, so it’s an enormous amount of work behind this season and an enormous amount of research. And it feels very right this season. So I think it will be standing. I hope so.

And lastly while I have the floor, I just want to thank the Danish Skam fans, you guys, it feels like the heart of Skam has moved from Oslo to Denmark. Once it was a Norwegian show, but now it’s become at least half Danish, it’s enormous what that Kosegruppa and others have made happen, both today and at other times. It feels like there’s a heatwave coming from Denmark every single week and that means (so) much to the entire crew. Stuff is coming all the time to our door, cupcakes are coming, and ?? And it was a delegation there during Easter, and you’re quite crazy, it’s like Skam is a band you’re fans of. But it’s great you’re the best in the world at analyzing Skam. I think you guys have understood more of Skam than anyone else. You’re cool. Congratulations to you and thank you so much.

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